Tomorrow I’ll be presenting Chromed Columns: Abu Dhabi City — a photobook on the mirrored columns that are everywhere in Abu Dhabi.
Alongside new books by my colleagues Andreas Valentin and Shamoon Zamir.
13 October, 6–8 PM · Art Gallery Reading Room, NYUAD
Stop by the Hatje Cantz booth for a Social Sip and meet me there as I am presenting my latest publication Chromed Columns — Abu Dhabi City, my new title with Hatje Cantz.
I am pleased to share that my new book Chromed Columns Abu Dhabi City is out. Fifty-one full-page photographs turn an overlooked detail of downtown Abu Dhabi into an object of study: the chrome-plated columns that line the city’s façades, absorbing their surroundings like convex mirrors. Ubiquitous yet unseen.
With a text by the artist and an essay by architect and urbanism researcher George Katodrytis.
Published by Hatje Cantz, March 2026.
Photo © Heimann + Schwantes
One of the oldest artist studios in Paris opens its doors for the National Architecture Days. Atelier 11 — a 19th-century atelier built by artists for artists in 1875, home at various times to Gauguin, Modigliani, Brancusi, and Soutine — celebrates its 150th anniversary with an open studio, installations, and live performance.
Sandra Peters presents A Cube as a Line (2025), a new sculpture exploring the eleven possible unfoldings of a cube, rendered in soft fabric with zippers at the edges — transforming a rigid geometric form into something pliable, bodily, and open to the surrounding space. Participating artists: Solana Tixi (Argentina), Mario Gooden (USA), Hiie Saumaa (Estonia / France), and Christopher Brooks (USA).
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris October 17 & 18, 2–7 PM
Photo © Sandra Peters
Please join us on September 2, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the NYUAD Arts Center for the presentation of the sound installation SonicCube. The sound sculpture SonicCube is based on an idea by Sandra Peters for a collaborative project. Musician and composer Sam Nester (NYC) conceived the composition; sound engineer João Menezes (UAE) provided the sound system operation. Special thanks to Gleb Iarovoi for setting up the sound system, Tucker Russells and Nelson Reyes for installing the sculpture Wandering Spirit (2014), and Terri May for setting up the lights.
Poster Design © Heimann + Schwantes
A meditation on interconnection, impermanence, and the body. Yoking brings together the work of seven women artists — Leslie Brack, Christine Elfman, Ellie Krakow, Sheng Lor, Sandra Peters, Dena Robertson, and Katrina Umber — around the act of joining: individuals, ideas, forms. What begins in impermanence moves into confluence, finding unexpected strength at the point where things meet.
FOYER-LA, 970 N. Broadway St, #204, Los Angeles CA 90012 Thursday – Saturday, 12–5 PM; June 21 – August 2, 2025
Image © FOYER-LA
Please join us for a full-day symposium that brings together architects, artists, ecologists, and urban scholars to examine the liminal spaces of Gulf urbanism — the overlooked zones, unexpected encounters, and counter-narratives that exist beyond conventional architectural boundaries. Sandra Peters co-convenes the symposium alongside Katia Arfara, Tala Gharagozlou, and George Katodrytis, and moderates the panel Navigating the Landscape: Placemaking and Sustainable Urbanism in Abu Dhabi.
Open to the NYUAD community and by invitation. Registration required. Supported by Al Mashhad Research Kitchen, Division of Arts and Humanities, NYUAD.
Please join us for a gathering of artists, scholars, and researchers exploring how public spaces are made, contested, and lived across the Gulf region. Presented by the Abu Dhabi Public Spaces Collective and the Anthropocene: Urbanism, the Environment, and Sustainability Research Kitchen at NYUAD.I am please to present Chromed Columns Abu Dhabi as part of the panel Making Place in Gulf Cities, alongside Hamad Al Muzaini and Olivia Duncan.
Please join us for the opening of Mudroom on February 1, 2025 from 12-5PM (PST). A group project bringing together the artists who have been part of FOYER-LA, each joined by a friend and fellow artist of their choosing. Seventy voices, one room. FOYER-LA, 970 N. Broadway St, #204, Los Angeles CA 90012 Thursday – Saturday, 12–5 PM
Poster © FOYER-LA
You are warmly invited to the opening on November 16th from 4-10PM (UTC) of 100×100×100 — a collective act of art and solidarity bringing together 100 artists across 100 square metres, with each work offered at €100. All proceeds go in support of relief efforts in Gaza and Lebanon. Come, be part of it. This eventbis organized by the artits Maria Ulecia.
Poster © Maria Ulecia
Excited to share that I am invited by artist Stephen Berens to participate in Direct Comparison — a project exhibited on Instagram. Behrens photographs a location, returns to place the print within that same scene, and photographs it again — layering present against past, image against landscape. I’m contributing images captured across locations in Abu Dhabi, bringing the city’s light and architecture into dialogue with this ongoing exchange and project.
Photo © Sandra Peters
Open House. A group exhibition at Kim Robertson’s villa — April 27th, 2 to 6 PM. You’re welcome to join us.
Please join us August 2, 2023 at 7:00 pm at Motto Books, Berlin for a conversation with Sandra Peters and Adam Feldmeth to present Peters’ new book Cut Cube. The book Cut Cube, 2022 results from my interest in the graphic interplay between two- and three-dimensional structures. The 11 possible ways to unfold a cube are laid out on white paper, whereas the seven cuts that make it possible to unfold a cube are printed on transparent paper and related to each of the six sides of each flattened cube. Turning pages generates a flow of information to make the viewer aware of the complex interplay between both types of structures. The book is published with Motto Books, Berlin/Lausanne. A book signing will follow the discussion.
Image Credit: Jens Ziehe
On March 17, Sandra Peters is presenting her artistic practice at Maumaus in context of the independent study programme. She is in conversation with art historian and curator Terri Geis (USA).
Please join us on March 4, 2023, at 4:00 PM at The NYUAD Project Space for a panel discussion about Performing the City with the artist Sandra Peters, Mona El-Mousfy, Architect and Architecture Consultant for the Sharjah Art Foundation, and George Katodrytis, Architect and Professor at the American University of Sharjah. The conversation will be moderated by the architect Tala Gharagozlou. Join the panelists as they take the ideas presented in the exhibition as a starting point and explore the meaning and potential of the development of public, semi-public, and liminal spaces in the urban landscapes of the UAE.
Image Credit: Ken Koch. Courtesy of the artist
Join me for the opening of my solo exhibition Performing the City, at the NYUAD Project Space on February 27, at 5.30 pm GST.
The exhibition serves as a platform for the interim presentation of a planned temporary outdoor sculptural installation at the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE) with the working title City Center / Nomadic Monads.
Image Credit: Ken Koch. Courtesy of the artist
Artforum Artguide promotes Un-folded Cube (landscape mode) at the Foyer-LA space as a must-see exhibition.
The floor sculpture Un–folded Cube (landscape mode) from 2022 and now on view at Foyer-LA in Los Angeles, results from my interest in the interplay between two- and three-dimensional structures. A cube can be unfolded in 11 possible ways. Forms of unfolded cubes, made of orange wool fabric, are laid out on the floor and folded along their diagonal axis. While the imagined cubes relate to the architecture of the exhibition space the un–folded forms suggest a landscape mode.
Photo © Connie Walsh
At the beginning of the New Year 2023, I look forward to welcoming you to the LAPIDAR group exhibition, curated by Stefan Pietryga and Mike Gesner at the Kunstraum Potsdam.
Photo © Jens Ziehe
On October 26, 2022, at 5:00 pm in the Reading Room at the NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, Sandra Peters will be in conversation with art historian Terri Geis and the NYUAD Art Gallery Director Maya Allison to present Peters’ new book CutCube.
The book is published with Motto Books, Berlin/Lausanne. A book signing will follow the discussion.
Photo © Jens Ziehe
The Berlin-based architect and critic Frank F. Drewes wrote an extensive book review on the monograph PER/TRANS Performing the Cube, Transforming the Cube, which can be found in the August 2022 edition of Bauwelt (No. 16).
In February 2022, Sandra Peters will release her artist book CutCube. The graphic translation is by Heimann & Schwantes, Berlin and the book will be published by Motto Books, Berlin/Lausanne.
In conjunction with the exhibition Sharjapan 3: Remain Calm: Solitude and Connectivity in Japanese Architecture, on view at Sharjah Art Foundation from 24 July to 1 October 2021, multidisciplinary artist Nile Koetting will discuss the themes of his ongoing installation, Remain Calm (Compressed +) with Assistant Arts Professor Sandra Peters at NYU Abu Dhabi. During the discussion, Koetting will touch upon questions related to space (physical, environmental and communal) and the navigation of precarious shifts between isolation, exclusion and connection as well as safety and risk, in a time of global crisis.
To register, please click on the headline.
Photo © Jens Ziehe
NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program presents a round-table discussion with Katia Arfara (NYUAD), George Katodrytis (AUS), and Sandra Peters (NYUAD) moderated by Laure Assaf (NYUAD).
In the NYU Psychology Seminar Series, Sandra Peters will reflect on her art practice through a psychological lens. The lecture is followed by a Q&A.
To join the lecture, please visit this link via Zoom:
https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98695460983
Photo © Werner Hannappel
Tashkeel presents a live online discussion exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on visual arts practitioners and the creativity borne from the challenges of limitation, loss, isolation and change. Join artists Altamash Urooj, Ana Escobar, Becky Beamer and Sandra Peters. There will be a chance to ask the artists questions during the session. Moderated by Lisa Ball-Lechgar, Tashkeel Deputy Director.
Photo © Jens Ziehe
Tashkeel presents COVID Conversations, a group exhibition by UAE-based artists and designers that reflect upon the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. By focusing on creative acts that seek to explore, understand and process responses and reactions to the pandemic, the exhibition aims to examine the highs and the lows of the psychological impact, and creativity borne from the challenges of limitation, isolation and change, whether positive or negative.
Photo © Sandra Peters
In collaboration with designers Heimann + Schwantes and the scholars of Kurator für Künstler / Curator for Artists, Berlin, I have worked on a new presentation of my work, which I am very happy to launch today!
Please have a look at my latest writing on a recent video work of mine!
The Southland Institute (for critical, durational, and typographic post-studio practices) has published a list of books worth reading.
City Center / Nomadic Monads is conceived of five approximately ten-foot-high columns based on various geometric forms (circle, triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon), each made of two-way mirror glass.
Installed temporarily in public space at the Sharjah Art Foundation, these objects allude equally to the glass curtain walls of corporate skyscrapers and to the bodies of passers-by.
Photography and visualisation © Sandra Peters and Ken Koch
Nomad Lab is a group show at the Quoz Arts Fest 2020 at Alserkal Aveneue in Dubai.
With works by Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Wendy Bednarz, Mari Calderon, Erin Collins, Scandar Copti, David Darts, Anna Kurkowa, Sandra Peters, Goffredo Puccetti, Laura Schneider, Erica Wu, Steven Wyks
Photo © Sandra Peters
